Your “Nope, I Was Wrong” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Today is slower than yesterday.

NFL News:

• Mike Tomlin is not a fan of touchdown celebrations. This is apparently news.
  • Given how many timeouts he has to waste on extra points, I can see why.
  • He wouldn’t have that problem if he had Hue Jackson’s team.

• Michael Bennett turned himself in to authorities on assault charges stemming from allegedly knocking over a paraplegic stadium attendant at the Super Bowl.
  • The sheriff has already guaranteed a mistrial by poisoning the jury pool, by referring to Bennett as “pathetic” and “morally corrupt” during the announcement of the charges.

• Passed unanimously, the new rules defining a catch include:
  • Control of the ball.
  • Two feet down or another body part.
  • A football move such as:
    • A third step;
    • Reaching/extending for the line-to-gain; or
    • the ability to perform such an act.
  • It eliminate the “going to the ground” aspect of the catch process.
  • In other words,

• The mayor of London wants a Super Bowl.
  • Sadiq Khan clearly sees the draw of The Big Game^©®™, but he will have to wait until some team starts demanding a new stadium from their city.
    • I don’t think the Spanoi clan could handle the gray London winters. Dean seems soft.

Finally, as you can see from the banner, the coaches took their annual Winter Meeting photo – minus Messers Belichick, Carroll & Harbaugh. Andy Reid, as usual, was the only one to take the whole palm tree environment to heart.

which many on Twitter are comparing to “Florida Stanley”.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • no national broadcasts
• NBA:
  • Nuggets at Raptors – 7:30PM | TSN
  • Cavaliers at Heat – 8:00PM | TNT
  • Bucks at Clippers – 10:30PM | TNT
  • Pacers at Warriors – 10:30PM | Sportsnet1
• NCAA:
  • NIT Basketball Tournament: Semi-finals
    • Western Kentucky vs. Utah – 7:00PM | ESPN
    • Mississippi State vs. Penn State – 9:00PM | ESPN
• Futbol:
  • International Friendly Soccer:
    • U.S. vs. Paraguay – 7:30PM | FS1
    • Mexico vs. Croatia – 9:50PM | FS1
• WWE:
  • Smackdown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360

Boy, does the NHL sure know marketing. A week to go until the playoffs, and they can still afford to have no national broadcasts to pump up potential playoff matchups. As always, fuck Roger Goodell, but really – FUCK GARY BETTMAN!